With gratitude to my friend and Bible Study Leader, Mary Anderson —

Parents think about this
before you try to change the
GRANDPARENT role …

My mom doesn’t do everything exactly the way I do.

She feeds my children different foods, offers different drinks.

They do different things together than we do at home.

Sure, sometimes it seems excessive. I mean, does my 3 year-old really need McDonald’s AND cookies AND marshmallows toasted over their backyard campfire, all within 24 hours?

But here’s the thing-it’s only for a few days. Or sometimes just a few hours.

Maybe my kids will come home wired. That’s definitely a possibility. Maybe it will take a day or two to get her back into our home routine.

But they will ALSO come home loved, happy, and full of new memories shared with Grandma-memories they will treasure.

Their grandmother won’t always be with us.

And when she leaves one day, those memories will be all my children have.